The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin

The 1904 Men's Olympic Marathon was an infamously chaotic sporting event - and the race has been adapted into Silo Theatre's latest stage show.
The race was held in St Louis, Missouri, and features rat poison, a competitor taking naps, another who hitched a ride to the finish line and a runner being chased off course by a wild dog.
England-based Kiwi comedian and writer Nic Sampson has turned this infamous event into a play starring Chris Parker and Brynley Stent - and the pair promise it's going to be a good show
"The story is about, I guess, these people who were willing for this marathon to happen. And this is before the Olympics were the Olympics, this was the third-ever Olympics."
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Kiwi chef Tom Hishon has launched his first cookbook and he aims to teach people new and exciting ways to make breakfast.
Hishon is behind the popular Auckland eateries Orphans Kitchen, Daily Bread and Kingi, and his new book Good Morning will help you bring his recipes into your own kitchen.
He says there's plenty of 'amazing sections' in the book that can help beginners and experts alike.
"There's a whole section on toast, which is what initially drew me into cooking - it was making my own breakfast. And then there's some really technical sections as well, with the baking and all those things as well."
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All In by David Baldacci: the latest in the Travis Devine series – Travis works for the Department of Homeland Security and is called in to help when a journalist is shot and left for dead on a NYC street and the intelligence analyst she was working with disappears without a trace. Travis’s search for answers takes him to Sydney where he discovers that Australia’s richest family appears to be involved, up to its neck, but how and why is unclear and he teams up with a local detective to figure out what’s going on; and how to stop it. Pacy, clever, with lots of twists and turns.
The Steps by Sylvester Stallone. Sly looks back over his life and career, with insights into the young man who made his breakthrough with Rocky and became one of the most unlikely heroes of Hollywood. Along the way he talks about his violent and impoverished childhood, his determination to make something of himself and how he went about it, the success which eventually came and his refusal to make compromises for an easy life. It’s a terrific retelling of a fascinating life about someone who overcame the odds and has managed to remain true to himself along the way.
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Megan Singleton's embarked on her next adventure to Japan, and she's taking a tour group around the region to see what it can offer.
She's getting a look at the busy city and she's been exploring the Team Labs interactive experience, the Shibuya Crossing, and the Tokyo Sky Tree.
Read more about her experience here.
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This week on The Sunday Panel, Capital director Ben Thomas and editor and journalist Jo McCarroll joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more!
The election is over and done, but we still won't know the winner until the end of the month. Have Luxon and the right bloc won? Is Luxon going anywhere? What do these results say about the stability of the National Party?
What did we make of last Friday's big Outlook outage? Is this a sign we've all become too dependent on technology?
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